The Journal Editorial Report panel discusses this week's ruling in favor of building a mosque near Ground Zero that has had New Yorkers intensely divided. Video courtesy of Fox News.

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I ... almost a building that is the question did roiling the New York City right now whether this week the city landmarks preservation Commission voted unanimously against preserving a one hundred and fifty two year-old factory building ... just two blocks from ground zero ... clearing the way for the construction of a one hundred million dollars Islamic Community Centre cold of the Cordoba house ... we're back with Dan Henninger ... also joining the panel is the Wall Street telephone affairs columnist Brett Stephens an assistant editorial page editor James Freeman ... James ... all that any serious legal challenges which could still get in the way of the building of this mosque ... no there is some losses but they're essentially nuisance is ... based on legal grounds they should go forward This is America's their property ... they and freedom of religion and ... then there's no reason to stop it now than the landmarks Commission made the right decision to buildings and open up ... it should be put to a new useful as an interesting opening gambit Janus GST should be built it will develop an overflow the legal obstacles what you said about threats to the end of the manager of the building is not such a dump its not such an eyesore and a nice neighborhood in the real issue here ... isn't ... a question of we live in America ... and were so proud of having these rights to stop legal issue here that this is what I really talking about right that's a cheap shot argument ... we're talking about whether ... it's the interests of this the mom part to promote ... interfaith understanding ... whether he is advancing those interests or not and he clearly ... isn't on Youtube question ... from the background of this year mom you question his motivation for its involvement in the last book I think there's some real questions that have to be put to this ... the mom and are separate from the question whether this mosque in Koeltl Center ... are built ... that he's really talking about promoting interfaith understanding ... I would love to see for instance a dialogue with gay and lesbian Muslims taking place in the centre ... I would love um you know I would love to see him happening with it but to make sure your opposite Noranda ... because what he's doing James what he's doing ... is he's saying you love unconditionally you're tall and had to do address all of these social issues that they sell the property ... unless you're saying you want a mosque for his own ... extending X number of blocks ... by witnesses Neil Burlington coat Factory building ... it's been several blocks from ground zero ... I don't think if there were the media firestorm ... banning visitors to the back Alabama ground zero we didn't know this thing exists to monitor thirty stories shore away from another mosque and we got the kick them out to him for extending some must free zone ... out from ground zero several wind of change for talking past one another year the issue here isn't whether this the mom has the right in the United States to build the center he dives in conceding that point ... I don't think it is the material point ... the point is whether this team on should be building that maths is his interest is to promote tolerance because what he's doing is promoting ... the opposite of it not just because of the the the reaction at its meeting but because of the inherent chic units of putting it there did just that point cannot find the Some Opera ball could have on the part of this to mom ... well what I'm concerned about is a double standard where we're not ... apply in all these questions to other religious groups and in that ... weren't fortunate in the city of New York are not there at the moment but that we have ... a wealth of of our religious expression of people are our freedom ... director of various kinds of churches and and frankly we don't like crazy cult in the city but this is America we don't to ... gin up campaigns to want ... to shame them all into what doing something else with the property they own tried and still another perspective on this well you know this debate has got the word tolerance elevated quite a bit how we have to ... show that we are able to ... be tolerant and diverse points of view ... let me just point out that in the nineteen nineties but ... great Mosque was built in Rome with the permission of the Vatican in the last several years the Pope ... has requested himself ... that Saudi Arabia build a Christian church because they're at least a million Christian workers in Saudi Arabia ... he asked the president of Yemen if the Christian church to be built there the president said he would look into it in either case ... the Saudi Arabia or Yemen or much less anywhere else have they been able to build a Christian church ... I think there's a real problem of good faith here ... between organized Islam and the rest of the world's religions and I just don't think they have ... earned the right ... to have mosque down there on the edge of ground zero they have just shown no could face in trying to live up to leave for the standard of tolerance that we are discussing is the right ... to build them up ... they have tried just that ... well I mean I'm not arguing that this is a IIa ... of gouging that this is a wonderful group and this is a big go warm embrace are giving the people of New York in the United States ... I don't know but does ... not what I am saying is that we have a better model than Saudi Arabia our model is freedom and openness and eventually that model in that idea is to prevail over the years ... unless we ... start to move toward their model which is ... tracking down and eliminating the of ... the points of view that we don't like ... us others you read the posts with James I gotta get the last winter Brett ... well ... you know this is this idea that we constantly ... have to demonstrate what this tolerant country we are ... and how much better we aren't in the Saudi Arabia's of the world I don't think United States ... ever have to demonstrate that there were no anti Muslim pogroms ... in the week of um ... in the wake of nine eleven what did what I think with the onus should line is on the founders of this mosque or not only putting in a mosque but an entire Koeltl center to demonstrate exactly what then was talking about ... good pay ... so let's see those gay Muslim lesbians in that in adCenter let's see those images of the Prophet Mohammed ... Betsy condemnations of Hamas and other terrorist groups issuing forthrightly and then I'll be impressed ... dog up thank you ...